From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-05-06T09:04:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting rid of Object#equal?()?

Hi,

In message "Re: Getting rid of Object#equal?()?"
    on Thu, 5 May 2005 23:57:30 +0900, Florian Gro� <florgro@gmail.com> writes:

|I think that we currently have too many equality methods with similar names:
|
|==: same meaning
|eql?: same value (for hashes)
|equal?: identical object
|
|I think that equal?() is rarely used and that removing it completely 
|would make sense -- after all  a.id == b.id  is not much longer than 
|a.equal?(b).

I'm not motivated too much to remove "equal?".  I assume Ruby users
smart enough to distinguish above three without any confusion once
they are told.  Are there any reason to remove?

							matz.